Talk:Watchmen/to do
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Add information about Black Freighter, the comic that runs alongside the main plot of WatchmenExpand "Perspective" section- Ensure that thought balloons were actually unused as a narrative device. If they were, the story is told in a 3rd person omniscient POV and the original article was incorrect; if they weren't, it is 3rd person objective POV and the original article was incorrect. If they only occur during entire sections presented in the first person, the remainder would be considered objective POV.
- Elaborate "Characters" section to provide better insight into who they are as characters and what powers or abilities they possess, instead of merely listing what comic heroes they were originally based on
- Edit Golda reference/quotes in "Artwork" and "Themes" section to flow better
- Create a full list of major iconography used in Watchmen and add to the article
- Create a full list of major historical, comic, and literary allusions and add to the article
Implement Chapter Overviews. These can then be added to a new page, and the "Plot Summary" section can be used to simply summarise the story- Add reference under 'Other' to Watchmen's connection to the TV series 'Lost.' One of the 'Lost' creators, either Abrams or Lindelof, admitted in an interview that he was heavily influenced by Watchmen, and fans of the show have subequently found a number of parallels between the two.
- Cite items in the "Symbolism" section to avoid Original Research
- note that another person with superpowers does exist. This is the "sensitive" who has psychic powers and provides the basis for the brain of the pseudo-extraterrestrial.
Information to add relating to Moore and Gibbons' attempt to be different and eye-catching during the issue by issue publication: The title appearing sideways, the cover being a part of the first panel of the story and thus the very first entry to the story, how this was done by coincidence for the first two issues and how then Gibbons decided to keep doing it, the nine-panel grid, how the alternative covers for the collected edition represent either an earlier panel or a detailed part of the first cover, how Under the Hood was originally intnded to replace the readers page (a common practice by Moore who uses it again in Promethea 1 and Top Ten 1) and was continued when Moore started to realise around issue 3 to the possibilities of his story, how the back covers carried a motif of clock and blood tying with issues 11 and 12, how this back cover was new for the time, and the absence of ads and editorial pages. Those details also illuminate Moore's statement that Watchmen is about its structure. People who didn't catch up the story while it was first being published might get the idea of a crytallised concept from the beginning but many of its features (the covers, the back sections) developed as the story started to get published
